Favourites List

Updated: 2025-09-28

• Music

  • Ace Attorney Ron DeLite's Theme "Please Listen!"
    • I love the Waltz 4/4 measure and the almost pleading tone motif to help with his character.
  • Honourary Mention to Ace Attorney - Lamiroir's Landscape Painter of Sound
    • Its such a dreamy track!

• Movies

  • Spirited Away
  • Inu-Oh
  • Wolf Children
  • Maquia
  • Dragon Dentist

• Shows

  • Wo Men De Ge

    • Also known as Singing with Legends or Our Song. This was the retirement show for Fei Yu-Ching and pays homage to his collaboration with Jay Chou. Essentially a more experienced singer and a newer singer are paired together to revisit new songs. I think it was just inspired with how much collaboration took place here!

  • Melody Journey

    • This is incredibly similar heart to Singing with Legends. We have singers trying to collaborate with songwriters/producers. I loved this show with how kind they are to these songwriters because there is absolutely a power dynamic at play as the singers are well respected, visible, and famous. Many of the songwriters are unknown but it feels so sweet when the singers try to jockey for the song. I watched this show for Zhou Shen and Joker Xue so I'm glad that they were the permanent singers. The competing studio created Hit Song. The songwriters need to curry for the favour of these famous songwriters. It is much less interesting to me as a result.

• Books

  • See Epistolary Novels
  • The Raven Boys Quotes

• Podcast

  • Tablo Podcast
    • Tablo is a rapper from the Korean group EPIK HIGH. I hesitate to call them kpop idols because Tablo really goes into how they were signed to an independent level. I think he is hilarious and love how he goes on tangents with his producer, Diane. They talk about anything from his history outside of the industry and cat conspiracies. He unfortunately ended the show during September 2020.

• Video Essays

  • Jenny Nicholson's Avatar Theme Park
    • I LOVED this video essay. I don't know what it is about it but I watch it around exam season. So I've watched it at least three times. It matches so well with the Sideways video essay about the Avatar soundtrack.
    • I would recommend ALL of Jenny Nicholson's theme park essays.
  • Vote 4 Holt Scratches and Dark Eye video essays are just fascinating. They delve into abandonware video games. He adds interesting perspectives from the meta knowledge and the source materials in both, even getting an interview a developer from Scratches.
  • Schaeffrillas Productions' Ratatouille video essay is iconic. He pours so much love into the descriptions and interpretation but Shaeffrillas never makes anything as good ever again.
  • I think Mike's Mic is pretty fun! He recaps movies but usually adds fun asides and contexts beyond what other recappers do.
  • Joseph Anderson - I really like his essays and have watched them at least twice, if not three times.
    • The Witness
      • The Witness is a line puzzle game where you have to connect the dots from one side to another. It starts on small tablets but quickly grows to pillars of buildings and even the entire landscape of the world. He is dedicated to 100% the game where he watches a 1 hour video TWICE to finish the puzzle. The outrage that this game caused led to the developer to release a sequel that is essentially a parody of the first.
    • What Remains of Edith Finch
      • This video talks about the tragedy of the Finch family and adds the idea of unreliable narrators. The idea that the Finch family is cursed is not true, it is rather that the family is careless and inconsiderate. That is the biggest curse of the family.
  • bizlychannel - Resident Evil 7
    • I watched playthroughs of Resident Evil 7 but as neither a horror movie player nor watcher, this video essay brought in such interesting context for the villains. It is about a family that gets corrupted by a parasite and take on bizarre forms. I really like both the references to monster movies but also how they represent different scary movie tropes. Editing is top notch too as Bizly reenacts the scenes using greenscreen instead of solely video game footage.
  • Read With Cindy and White Authors pretending to be POC
    • Cindy is a book blogger who reviewed RF Kuang's Yellow Face and called it unrealistic. Little did she know, we suddenly get an onslaught of authors come out of the woodworks who do exactly like that. She covers many of the cases such as a White author pretending to be a Korean woman named Kim Chi. There is also a white author who sends a bot army to 1 star a debut from a POC author and 5 stars her own debut. Go RF Kuang, drop the tea and make people pay more attention to it.
  • Defunctland - Disney Channel's Theme
  • BobbyBroccoli - Faking Human Cloning
  • Honey Bat - Femininity in Bloodborne

• Games

  • Small Capsule Games
    • I like games that have puzzles, little quests and things I can finish under 20 hours and it all started with A Short Hike.
    • In the order of when I roughly played the games
      • Short Hike
      • Minit
      • Toem
      • Little Gator Game
      • Chicory
  • Dark Parables Blue Tea Games
    • I played numbers 2 through 5 where the player is a fairy tale detective that often tries to find what happens to missing people. The second one is about a hidden castle after following the deaths of numerous raiders.
  • The Room Series
    • Box puzzles that end up really growing in the Room 3. It is really the House as we figure out what strange secret is hiding in it. This was a cool game where I played a game with multiple different endings for the first time. The Room 4 was focused on the doll house and adding detailing to it to uncover what happened to it. I forgot it existed frankly until I looked up the Steam page. I still remember the puzzles but attributed it to the 3rd game. I feel like I hallucinated it but I swear Fireproof Games has a game older than the room. It was a point and clicker where you go to temples to change the seasons and find the ancient artifact. Nope this was the Lost City by Fire Maple Games!